PLLZZ Explain, in the context of the passage, in not more than two sentences of your own, the meaning of each of the following expressions taken from the passage (Merely using phrases will not do). [1]

1. The signal lay on his table, half forgotten.
2. Many brave acts were done that night.

Modern teenagers are greatly different from the previous generations. They are more independent, have another interests and more spacious mind, but they are far more lazy.Most of these distinctions are caused by fast technical progress. Quite every teenager has a computer, a mobile phone and the internet access. On the one hand it is good, because they can find any information, it can be useful or not; any book or film can be found very easy and fast too. Moreover, the internet helps in studying and people from different countries or cities can communicate despite the distention between them. One the other hand, teenagers become more and more lazy, because they would better stay at home in front of computer than go somewhere.
Although the technic is very developed, there are a lot of teenagers who are intrested in handmade things and art. Nowadays it is very popular to create jewelleries, dolls, or clothes by yourself, also there are many tallented young people who take great pictures or draw painting using paints or special computer programmes. They upload their works to the internet, create their own web sites and sometimes become wellknown.
Those teenagers who prefer dynamic activities to drawing or photography do sports. They go to gym, dance, run and so on. Fortunately, there are fitness clubs and gyms in almost every city.
To sum up, the modern teenagers are the generation of the internet and technical progress. They have their own hobbies, fashion and problems, some of them are very creative, talented and interesting, some of them are shy and prefer to live virtually. They are all different, but I believe that they will be a good change to the previous generation, they will save the heritage and create something new to leave the trail in the world history.

Небольшая вводная: Всем привет! Давно уже читаю трендклаб, но не отписывалась раньше никогда. Просто было интересно собственное мнение многих участников портала. Однако, когда узнала про ваш конкурс - решила зарегистрироваться и поучавствовать, описав свои размышления по поводу роботов и нашего с вами будущего. Почти вся статья написана в аэропорту, пока летела из Киева домой. К сожалению, выложить статью 1 декабря, как планировала, не удалось - из-за жуткой непогоды, бурана и отложенных авиарейсов. Но, с другой стороны, зато было время проверить орфографию и пунктуацию =). Будьте снисходительны, сильно не ругайте!